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Favorite Read of 2019
Happy New Year! It’s been a long one for sure, and I’m very excited to get started on my 2020 reads. New year, new playlists, movies, books, podcasts. I read twenty books in 2019, eight more than my goal, and for the most part, it was a very good reading year. I genuinely enjoyed almost every one I read. I’m pretty easy to please, though, I’ve only ever DNF-ed maybe three books in my life. This year, there was one book in particular that I loved more than any other: The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I read The Goldfinch a few years ago, and it held up to be…
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Hello, World! – October Recap
October was a big month for my reading world. At the end of September, I started a book Instagram, which is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. I’m one of those people who either makes the snap decision to do something or I’ll sit on the idea for months (or even years) and never see it come to fruition. But there I was, sitting at my favorite coffee shop on a beautiful day, and I decided: today was the day. I mean, I texted two of my closest confidantes frantically to confirm that it was, in fact, a good idea. I wanted to have a blog ready…